Krispy Kreme – “Girl Work It”

IT’S FRIDAY. YOU AIN’T GOT NO JOB, YOU AIN’T GOT STUFF TO DO! (GUYS, THAT WAS A REFERENCE FROM THE HIT 1995 COMEDY FRIDAY STARRING ICE CUBE AND CHRIS TUCKER. I DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE A JOB OR STUFF TO DO, BUT IF FOR SOME REASON YOU DON’T BUT YOU WISH THAT YOU DID I’M SORRY AND I WASN’T TRYING TO MAKE LIGHT OF YOUR SITUATION. OK? FRIENDS? BEST FRIENDS LIKE KRISPY KREME AND MONEY MAKER MIKE? THE HECK WITH JAMES!)

I’m at the point in my life where I find it hard to motivate myself to find new music. I always star Stereogum posts on my reader and tell myself “I have to go back and listen to this sometime” but I never do. However, there is not a single Krispy Kreme track that I don’t immediately play. Not sure what this says about me, but here I am world.

What I love about this song is that its underlying message is so sweet, “Girl, you look hot, but I really just want you to marry me.” The problem is that Moneymaker Mike won’t take a hint AND LEAVE THE ROOM.

There wasn’t much GIF fodder from this video. Mostly it’s just weird moving shots reminiscent of the Never Gonna Give You Up video (which, for a little while, made me think that this was a really complicated lead up to a Rick Roll, but I think I’m over reacting). So I made a GIF of KK “dancing” and Money Maker Mike scratching his face.

At this point I really have the feeling that Krispy Kreme has no idea what the words he’s saying mean. He’s heard people talk about dancing and ladies and sex, but he doesn’t understand the concepts let alone experienced them first hand. It’s like listening to a blind man rap about the sunset.

Also, the poor guy doesn’t understand the economy he’s about to graduate high school into.
“We always eat good because we work so hard”? That’s not how the world works anymore, KK.
You can work so hard and still be eating beans, and the other KKs (the Kardashians) just swan around buying rings because their daddy was friends with OJ and one of their sisters had sex on the Internet.

Caution: Snark Free Post. Okay, so: I like Krispy Kreme and DJ Gummo (aka Moneymaker Mike). I don’t know exactly why, except that KK has a kind of a flow. i’ve heard worse (damning with faint praise much?) – but really, that “purdy little girl from Tennessee, I like you and you like me” is sort of catchy… and they’re just so jaw-droppingly regional. Now I will go and marry them, as I’m sure you will all say why don’t I just marry them if I love them so much and I do. It might be tough because of how he makes out with every girl in the world, but I’d be safe from attackers wielding infinity knives, so…

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